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Hence the Great Redskins Scandal of 2013<\/a>.\u00a0 The good news is, even some American Indians<\/a> are stepping up and saying \u2018hey, we don\u2019t mind!\u2019\u00a0 But it happens every day.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if I woke up tomorrow, opened the paper, and saw a headline proclaiming that green eyed women with last names starting with M are in fact horribly discriminated against.\u00a0\u00a0 That the evil Christian West has targeted their kind for years.\u00a0 That we must right this heinous wrong.\u00a0 It\u2019s time we invoke the Censorship for Tolerance!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Before we would have a chance to even look and see if there really was such a plight, laws would be changing and the revolutionary council would have convinced enough Americans that yet one more vestige of some freedom, somewhere, just had to go.\u00a0 So the Air Force Academy<\/a>, in the wake of this thrice-daily onslaught, has blinked.\u00a0 And it has taken the first baby step that we\u2019ve now seen too many times.\u00a0 It won\u2019t end there of course.\u00a0\u00a0 As with all things liberal, it\u2019s only the beginning.\u00a0 Like most things with decidedly ulterior motives, it can\u2019t be compromised with, bargained with or negotiated with.\u00a0 It may appear a victory of compromise.\u00a0 But give it a couple years.\u00a0 At that time, when there are a hundred other new scandals demanding the Censorship, you\u2019ll see this revisited.\u00a0 And we\u2019ll take yet one more baby step toward a world in which Freedom is a distant memory. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"